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現代文學導讀：詩、散文、小說

「現代文學」，又稱白話文學、新文學，起源自五四時期的白話文學運動，更可以上溯到晚清文學革命。其體裁包含詩、散文、小說，而晚清以來的翻譯小說也佔有頗重要的位置。現代作家藉由作品表達他們對新世界、新觀念、新文化的看法，塑造新的審美觀與價值觀，形成豐富多元的文學世界，值得我們細細品味。
本課程依照詩、散文、小說與翻譯小說四類，選取代表作家徐志摩、梁實秋與楊牧、沈從文，以及林紓等，透過作家生平介紹、文類結構分析、經典作品導讀，引導大家認識現代文學的樣貌與特色，並藉此了解如何欣賞文學、體會人文精神。

修習完本課程後，你將可以：
1. 列舉詩歌的形式與特色
2. 列舉散文文體特徵與形式
3. 說明沈從文小說的特色與寫作背景
4. 說明翻譯小說的興起與影響

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杏林探宝——认知中药

《杏林探宝——认知中药》是由上海中医药大学推出的一门关于中药学的慕课课程，由上海中医药大学杨柏灿教授主讲。
上海中医药大学（Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine）的前身是上海中医学院，创建于1956年，是新中国诞生后国家首批建立的四所中医药高等院校之一，也是上海市属高校中唯一的一所医科类重点特色院校。
中药学根植于中华文化，是中医药学的重要组成部分，也凝聚着中华文明的精髓。其悠久的历史，卓越的防病治病效果，较少的毒副作用，成为中华民族防病治病不可或缺的选择。同时，中药的作用也日益引起国际社会的关注和重视。但不可否认，对中药的认识和应用存在着一些不容忽视的误区与盲区，非常有必要采取一定的方式，通过合适的平台传播、普及中药知识，使人们对中药有一个更为全面准确的认识，并能合理应用，让中药为人类的健康保健发挥更大的作用。

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宇宙之旅：展现生命 (Journey of the Universe: The Unfolding of Life)

关于这门课程：宇宙之旅是由不断进步的科学发现和人文科学交织组成的，历史、哲学、艺术、宗教统统都含括在内。这门课以艾美奖获奖影片-宇宙之旅，以及耶鲁大学出版社出版的课本作为主要教材。

旅程探索了宇宙的进化，这些进化就像是一套建立在关联、独立和进化之上的奇妙过程。它带我们重新审视星系、地球、生命和人类社会之间的动态交互。它探索了我们了解进化的过程以及对人类和生态环境的启示。

因此，这门旅行课程是自然科学和人文科学的融合。这趟旅行是以一种史诗旁白的形式进行推进的，而不是讲述一系列遵从自然科学的事实。这会改变我们的认知并让我们可以将自身带入到旁白之中。通过这种代入感，我们可以更好的理解这一系列过程的复杂性和美感，例如自组织演化、自然选择、进化、协作、协同进化。当我们发现了解了了这些错综复杂的进化过程之后，我们突然发现到我们所生活的地球正处在其自身历史上的重要转折点，纷繁复杂却又美轮美奂。

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大學之理念 (The Idea of a University)

本課程旨在探討現代大學之起源、發展及其當前問題，分析當前大學社群之內部問題，以及大學社群與非學術社群（如政治、經濟、社會部門等）之互動關係，並探討21世紀全球化時代大學的新挑戰與大學教育的新課題。

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史記 (Shi Ji)

人文學，其特色在於「慢熱」，需要耐心細嚐、咀嚼古聖先賢的智慧結晶與其文字背後所隱含的真正意義。史記系列課程將透過對《史記》一書的導讀，引領同學們探究史學之「真」與「善」。

不管你是對中華文化感興趣者、想更深入了解傳統史學者、喜歡論理分析者、或是久仰太史公司馬遷之名之愛好者，這門課一定會讓你收穫良多。因為《史記》不僅記載了無數精彩非凡的歷史人事，更貫串了在它之前的多數古代典籍，可說是集中國上古文明精粹於一書。更重要的是，這門課程中將引導大家如何讀《史記》，進而學會如何讀中國史書、如何讀中國書。

這是一場史學的思辨之旅，希望各位同學千萬不要錯過！

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中日文化交流史

追溯日本文明发展的历史，阐明日本人独特的思考模式，解析日本独特的审美意识。本课程讲授公元前3世纪至清末的中日文化交流的历史。以文化艺术的交流为主线，以实地考察为背景展示了中日两国丰富灿烂的交流史实。通过中日双方在吸收对方文化过程中所表现出来的不同的受容方式剖析了中日文化之不同特性，可以帮助受课者准确地把握日本文化的内质，并启发其对自我民族历史文化之思考。生动的图片，倾心的讲授，可以让学习者在轻松愉快的氛围中完成六章的学习和有趣的试题，以期丰富学习者的人文积淀。

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中國古代歷史與人物：秦始皇（Qin Shi Huang)

在近代以前，歷史學是培養各種領袖與人才的必備教育，因為它能夠使人對過去「稽其興壞成敗之理」（《史記‧太史公自序》）。「中國古代歷史與人物」這門課程希望回到歷史學的原點，藉由具體的事例，來探索「讀歷史到底有什麼用？」。

從東周到秦漢是中國歷史上承先啟後的鉅變時期，更是一個英雄輩出、波瀾壯闊的大時代。而秦始皇正是主導這個時代，且令後世爭議不絕的歷史關鍵人物之一。本課程將利用現代歷史學的各種取徑，以原典史料為中心，結合考古成果、古代文物等，對歷史人物進行多角度的剖析，探索秦始皇及其統治集團成功和失敗的祕密究竟何在，並希望使同學藉此明瞭歷史學的功用與價值。

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Writing Stories About Ourselves

In this course, creative nonfiction writers will explore traditional storytelling methods, especially those which overlap between fiction and memoir. By looking at examples from a wide range of genres, including film, song, painting—even the theme music for Jaws!—we’ll practice exercising the creative muscle that sees ourselves as characters and the experiences we’ve had as tales. We’ll focus on critical elements, like how to begin a story, what makes for worthy content, the essential use of detail, the strengths and limits of dialogue, the power of the white space.

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• 10 hours
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Writing in First Person Point of View

If you have always wanted to tell your own story—in a memoir, first-person essay, or any other form of autobiographical non-fiction—but felt you lacked the tools or the framework, this is the class for you. We will learn how successful first-person writing is structured to offer the reader a sense of propulsive motion, and is guided by a narrator who is deliberately crafted. We will explore the ways in which language can be used to create tone, so that the emotional freight of your words is as potent as the storytelling.

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Writing a Personal Essay

This class is the chance to create your personal essay or extend into a full memoir -- from planning and structure to bold narrative brushstrokes to the layering of significant detail. You will develop the opportunity to find your voice and see it come alive, amplified and improved, on the page. This is the chance to tell your story in a way that invites readers in; your story, written to be read. The memoir and personal essay are two of the best-selling and most universally acclaimed genres in the world of modern creative writing. Welcome to your story.

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• 7 hours
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Write Your First Novel

WRITE YOUR FIRST NOVEL
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If you’ve ever had the dream, the desire or even just a vague notion that you would like to write a novel, this course is for you. Whether you are a full-time student, have a full-time job, a family to take care of or all of the above, you can do it. Really! And I will help you get there.

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• 127 hours
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Write Like Mozart: An Introduction to Classical Music Composition

This course introduces students to strategies for style writing of common practice European art music. The issues of harmonic progression, voice leading, and texture are addressed in addition to relevant compositional concepts like repetition, variation, and elaboration. The course aims to offer a creative space even within the restrictions of stylistic emulation.

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Write A Feature Length Screenplay For Film Or Television

Write a Full Length Feature Film Script\n\nIn this course, you will write a complete, feature-length screenplay for film or television, be it a serious drama or romantic comedy or anything in between. You’ll learn to break down the creative process into components, and you’ll discover a structured process that allows you to produce a polished and pitch-ready script by the end of the course. Completing this project will increase your confidence in your ideas and abilities, and you’ll feel prepared to pitch your first script and get started on your next.

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• 93 hours
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Worldviews - From Sustainability to Regeneration

This MOOC is the first part of an interconnected series of four MOOCs on Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems (DRRS) which bring together science, design and transformative praxis as a fluid, intervention-based and synergistic process for addressing complex challenges. This is explored through extending our worldviews, reframing complexity, designing as nature, activating our minds through physical movement, and connecting with new communities of practice.

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World Music: Global Rhythms

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World Music: Balinese Rhythms

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World Design for Video Games

Start creating your world. A game world is not just a backdrop for your game—be it minimal or detailed, contained or part of a much bigger universe, it provides the context for your player. Ultimately, a game world should feel alive and wholly unique to any player who will experience it.

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Words Spun Out of Images: Visual and Literary Culture in Nineteenth Century Japan

In their ambition to capture “real life,” Japanese painters, poets, novelists and photographers of the nineteenth century collaborated in ways seldom explored by their European contemporaries. This course offers learners the chance to encounter and appreciate behavior, moral standards and some of the material conditions surrounding Japanese artists in the nineteenth century, in order to renew our assumptions about what artistic “realism” is and what it meant.

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• 30 hours
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Wonders of Ancient Egypt

Colossal pyramids, imposing temples, golden treasures, enigmatic hieroglyphs, powerful pharaohs, strange gods, and mysterious mummies are features of Ancient Egyptian culture that have fascinated people over the millennia. The Bible refers to its gods, rulers, and pyramids. Neighboring cultures in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean wrote about its god-like kings and its seemingly endless supply of gold. The Greeks and Romans describe aspects of Egypt's culture and history.

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• 10 hours
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Women Making History: Ten Objects, Many Stories

Learn how American women created, confronted, and embraced change in the 20th century while exploring ten objects from Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library.

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William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Comedy, Conflict, and Community

This course introduces and explores William Shakespeare’s classic comedy, Twelfth Night. Interviews with actors who appeared in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s 2019 production of Twelfth Night, as well as lectures by scholars and theater professionals who work and teach at the University of Colorado Boulder, offer students insight into Shakespeare’s artistic vision and its applications.

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• 26 hours
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William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet: An Actor's Perspective

Have you ever wanted to read Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet? This course will provide a guided reading of the script and expose you to the perspectives of actors who've performed in the play. It primarily consists of interviews with 14 professional actors who have participated in at least one production of Romeo & Juliet somewhere in the US, at theaters and Shakespeare festivals including the American Shakespeare Center, American Players Theatre, and the Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey, and Utah Shakespeare Festivals.

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What is news?

This course will guide you through the basic elements of professional journalism and the news values and ethics of covering real-world issues and events. The overview and examples of the types of news coverage helps introduce the different types of journalism, such as social media, multimedia, print, visual and broadcast, and how professional journalists effectively use each format.

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• 16 hours
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What Is Contemporary Art?

What is contemporary art? In this course, you’ll consider this question through more than 70 works of art made between 1980 and the present, with a focus on art from the past decade. You’ll hear directly from artists, architects, and designers from around the globe about their creative processes, materials, and inspiration.

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• 12 hours
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Web Design: Wireframes to Prototypes

This course is focused on the application of the early UX research to actual user interfaces: the creation of wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and clickable prototypes.

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• 41 hours
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